This study deals with higher education in the field of nursing in the light of the Brazilian National Curriculum Guidelines, adaptation of professional education to the needs of the Brasilian Health System, and construction of care practices for comprehensive healthcare. This reflection is undertaken within the scope of university pedagogy relating to education for any of the professions regulated in Brazil regarding their orientation towards care. Care is seen as production of comprehensive healthcare; identification with the users of professional healthcare; understanding of the health system as a network response to social health needs; and education as a bold process of subjectivation that challenges autonomy that invents itself and the world.
Higher education; University pedagogy; Nursing education; Curriculum guidelines on nursing; Health care